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You are playing an MTT in which you have a 20% ROI. You have the choice of playing (1) the same number of hands are everyone else; (2) twice as many hands as everyone else; (3) half as many hands as everyone else. Which do you prefer? Which option would maximize your ROI? |
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Your tournament ROI is going to vary as you vary your play, so starting with the assumption that your ROI is 20% is going to be dependent on whether or not you are currently playing as many/fewer/more hands than your opponents. How many hands you play in comparison to your opponents is also going to be VERY situation dependent. What is your stack size? What are your opponents' stack sizes? How close are you to the money? Is your table generally playing tight/weak and letting you steal a lot of pots? Do you have a super aggressive player to your left who keeps raising every time that you enter a pot? If I'm in a live MTT where I'll be with the same group of players for awhile then I'll also vary my looseness throughout just to throw them off. In general, you should be more likely to enter hands if your post flop play is better than that of your opponents and/or your opponents are weak. If you think that you can steal a lot of pots then you should want to be in pots with them. If you think that you can see a lot of free cards when you want to then you should want to be in more pots. When I do increase the number of hands that I play for either of these reasons I tend to do it when I'm in position - so I don't just increase hands played across the board by X%, I increase it in later positions a bit more and a bit less (if at all) in early positions. A later position is when you'll be able to use your advantages over the other players the most. |
You start with the assumption that your ROI is 20%, and then ask what would maximize your ROI. I don't understand that assumption. It seems like there is a lot more information you are imagining but haven't specified, such as HOW you got that 20% ROI, and how your opponents are playing. Are they playing too loosely? Too tightly? Neither, but badly in other ways?
You have a 20% ROI because your push/fold strategy is strong. You have this ROI if you play the same number of hands as your opponents. Assume standard online low limit MTT players are your opponents.